My Work Quotes

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

You have to love your work. You have to save money instead of spending all of it. Look for areas you can compete in. Work damn hard. Most importantly, you have to love it.

Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.

I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!

Wealth comes from hard work but not because of hard work. Wealth comes because of God. Everything is His.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

You work, you get paid, you drink.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

By your work you show what you love and what you know.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.